You know you have chemo brain when…

Dr. Z has been writing the best blogs ever. Recently, he did one on “What is cancer?”, and also one on how cancer spreads. They are so enlightening, even if you know this stuff. His last one talks about a study in Japan on chemo brain that has found that there is shrinkage of the brain after chemo. I’ll bet that gets your attention. You’ll have to read it for yourself to find out what that is all about and how it affects you. In the meantime, let’s play a game. I’ll start then you can add on.

It goes like this; You know you have chemo brain when:

- You look at the bottle of medication in your hand and you can’t remember if you just took the pills or not, so you have to skip taking them until tomorrow.
- You start a conversation at work and then lose track of what you wanted to say.
- You pick up a book you have been excited to read, and can’t concentrate for more than the first two paragraphs, so you decide to read it tomorrow.
- You need a calculator to add three double numbers.
- You need to look up your own Social Security number.
- You don’t know where you put your Social Security card.
- You know something is wrong with you, but nobody believes you.
- Tomorrow comes, and the same things happen.

So now it’s your turn. Fill in the blank, you know you have chemo brain when:

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN

Kathy-Ellen is a Registered Nurse living in Michigan. In 2003, Kathy-Ellen was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. She was cancer-free from April 2004 until December of 2013 when it was discovered that...read more